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Code Name: Melville

Code Name: Melville (2008)★ 7.5/10

FR · 76 min · November 17, 2008

  • Documentary

Directed by: Olivier Bohler

Written by: Olivier Bohler

Mixing interviews, rare archival footage and film extracts, the film shows how Melville's works were impacted by what he experienced in his youth during WWII, and how it structured his whole approach to cinema, not only in its thematic but also in its aesthetics.

Directed by

Olivier Bohler

Written by

Olivier Bohler

Cast & crew

Michel Dreyfus-SchmidtSelfLeo FortelSelfPierre GrassetSelfLaurent GroussetSelfRémy GrumbachSelfMasahiro KobayashiSelfAndré S. LabartheSelfPhilippe LabroSelfJean-Jacques NatafSelfRui NogueiraSelfVolker SchlöndorffSelfBertrand TavernierSelfJohnnie ToSelfFrançois ChalaisSelf (archiveFootage)Jacques ChancelSelf (archiveFootage) (voice)Alain DelonSelf (archiveFootage)Jean-Pierre MelvilleSelf (archiveFootage)Paul MeurisseSelf (archiveFootage)Lino VenturaSelf (archiveFootage)